SEREMBAN: The target set by Negri Sembilan Barisan Nasional to recapture the Telok Kemang and Seremban parliamentary seats in the 14th General Election (GE14) may not be an easy task, but it is not impossible....

LOS ANGELES, March 20 — The festival has announced that three classics will return to the big screen during its latest edition, gathering original actors and directors for the occasion. Iconic participants in its programme of talks have also...

LOS ANGELES, March 20 — French composer — and multiple Oscar- and Grammy-winner — Michel Legrand is scoring Orson Welles' final film, The Other Side of the Wind, Variety reported.This will be Legrand's second Welles project &mdas...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 The High Court today threw out a legal challenge against the registration of 949 voters at an allegedly unfinished army camp in Segamat, as the Election Commission (EC) had already gazetted their registration.Lawyer...

SINGAPORE - A drug abuser who held his girlfriend's two-year-old son hostage, causing a 17-hour stand-off with police, was on Tuesday (March 20) sentenced to five years' jail and six strokes of the cane.. Read more at straitstimes.com....

SYDNEY (AFP) - Residents got their first look on Tuesday (March 20) at the devastation wrought by a bushfire that ravaged a town in Australia, but fears over asbestos and unstable structures mean even those with houses still standing cannot move back.. Re...

LONDON, March 20 — Getting your head around cryptocurrencies was hard enough before governments got involved. But now that policy makers around the world are drawing up fresh regulations on everything from exchanges to initial coin offerings,...

NEW YORK, March 20 — David Byrne, an underground icon since the 1970s, has earned his first Top 10 album in the United States with his latest work, American Utopia.The album debuted at number three on the Billboard chart, selling 63,000...

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations said on Monday it received official notification of the Philippines' decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court, a move that follows the tribunal's announcement of a preliminary probe of drug susp...

LOS ANGELES, March 20 Football officials from the United States, Mexico and Canada said yesterday they were unconcerned about any anti-American feeling as they began their final push to host the 2026 World Cup.Having presented their bid...

MILAN, March 20 Italy's interim coach Luigi Di Biagio says the door is still open for maverick striker Mario Balotelli who was once again overlooked for this month's friendlies, despite scoring regularly for Ligue 1 side Nice.The...

WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - The United States is advancing toward the first transfer of a prisoner from the Guantanamo Bay detention centre under US President Donald Trump, the US military told Reuters on Monday (March 19), a move that would repatriate the det...

President Joko Widodo arrived home on Tuesday morning after visiting Australia and New Zealand since Friday.Deputy for Protocol, Press and Media of the Presidential Secretariat Bey Machmudin said in a press statement the ......

INDIAN WELLS, March 20 The stars are finally starting to align for Juan Martin Del Potro who will be seeking his third straight ATP title at the Miami Masters this week.The south Florida showcase got an additional boost on Sunday when Del...

WASHINGTON, March 20 — The Trump administration is expected to unveil up to US$60 billion (RM234.6 billion) in new tariffs on Chinese imports by Friday, targeting technology, telecommunications and intellectual property, two officials briefed on...

LONDON, March 20 — British data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica is at the center of controversy in the United States and Britain after two newspapers reported on Sunday that the company harvested personal data about Facebook users beginning...

PARIS, March 20 Dozens of unseen works by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti the world's most expensive sculptor will go on display for the first time in June when a reconstruction of his famously decrepit studio opens in Paris.The...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 20 — British privacy regulators are seeking a warrant to search the offices of the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica late yesterday following reports that the company may have improperly gained access to data on 50...

(THE WASHINGTON POST) - You probably have a bag of flour in your pantry. And it's probably all-purpose, the workhorse of baking. But there are plenty of other, more specialised flours out there, and even if you are just starting to dabble in baking, i...

TOKYO, March 20 — Asian shares fell today as investors dumped high-flying US technology shares on fears of stiffer regulation as Facebook came under fire following reports it allowed improper access to user data.The retreat came as investors...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian court on Tuesday threw out part of News Corp's defence against a defamation lawsuit by Geoffrey Rush, who objected to newspaper articles accusing him of inappropriate conduct.. Read more at straitstimes.com....

NEW YORK --- Facebook "likes" can tell a lot about a person. Maybe even enough to fuel a voter-manipulation effort like the one a Trump-affiliated data-mining firm stands accused of --- and which Facebook may have enabled.The social network is und...

UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations human rights chief told an informal meeting of the Security Council on Monday that the Syrian government's five-year siege of the Damascus suburbs of eastern Ghouta has involved "pervasive war crimes," use ...

BEIJING (REUTERS, XINHUA) - Chinese President Xi Jinping warned self-ruled Taiwan on Tuesday (March 20) that it will face the "punishment of history" for any attempt at separatism, offering his strongest warning yet to the island claimed by China ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US State Department has a US$500,000 (S$657,000) contract with the British analysis firm facing allegations it misused Facebook user data and offered to dig dirt on its international clients' election opponents.. Read more at st...

When Kim Jones stepped down from his artistic director position in Louis Vuitton, there were rumors that he was moving to Burberry. But yesterday, it was confirmed that he's now Dior Homme's artistic director.Kim will succeed Kris Van Assche, who ...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 — The ringgit rebounded to open higher against the US dollar today ahead of the US Federal Open Market Committee later today.At 9.05am, the local note was quoted at 3.9100/9130 from yesterday's close of...